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ASPERGILLACEAE

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Meaning:

Family of fungi including some common molds

Synonyms:

Aspergillaceae; family Aspergillaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Aspergillaceae" is a kind of...):

fungus family (includes lichen families)

Meronyms (members of "Aspergillaceae"):

Aspergillus; genus Aspergillus (genus of common molds causing food spoilage and some pathogenic to plants and animals)

genus Thielavia; Thielavia (genus of fungi having spherical brown perithecia and some conidia borne in chains; cause root rot)

Holonyms ("Aspergillaceae" is a member of...):

Aspergillales; Eurotiales; order Aspergillales; order Eurotiales (order of fungi having a closed ascocarp (cleistothecium) with the asci scattered rather than gathered in a hymenium)

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